David Luke

David Luke was born in 1921 and is Tutor in German at Christ Church, Oxford. He has published articles and essays on German literature and various prose and verse translations, including Goethe’s Selected Verse (1964) for the Penguin Poets, Kleist’s The Marquise of O and Other Stories (1978) for the Penguin Classics, Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger and Other Stories (1970) and Goethe’s Roman Elegies (1977).

Author Contributions

Selected Tales

Selected Tales

The Brothers Grimm
Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Marquise of O and Other Stories

The Marquise of O and Other Stories

Heinrich von Kleist; Translated with an Introduction by David Luke and Nigel Reeves